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Originally Posted by JohnnyB

Excellent post!
Particularly the first part.

Depending on your take on Taiwan, I've lived in China for about a year and a half. My friends are all Chinese, I speak Chinese in daily life, I live with Chinese guys and spend holidays with their families. I don't know everything about Chinese culture, but I'm reasonably immersed in it and I can attest to the fact that it's a working system that just has different values. Things may seem ed from the outside, but, there are non-Western habits around...

Anyways, on the topic of the government, I agree it's ed. To be frank I'm actually starting to feel a little concern over what I should be publicly expressing on the topic of Tibet recently. I've never felt that here before. The Great Firewall of China is also a major piss off. It has been really ramped up for the Tibet stuff. You may not believe this, but I opened a CP thread with links to Tibet stuff yesterday and was promptly blocked from accessing CP at all. In prior times there have been plenty of blocked news sites, but it seems like any site with keywords or links to blocked sites are now being checked and locked down.
Amazing!

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